There is, inside all our heads, the ego’s rabid attack dog. It is purely vicious toward others and toward ourselves as well. Learning to control that dog, and ultimately to end its life, is the process and purpose of enlightened relationships.

It isn't courageous to go forth when you don't know the dangers. But it's very courageous to go forth when you do.

The issue is not whether or not you have that power, the issue is whether or not you use it.

Your life has purpose as long as you dedicate it to love. It's not what we do but who we are that forms our biggest contribution.

The greatest force of personal liberation is the decision to widen our circle of compassion, moving from focus on self to focus on service.

The wise person doesn't ask, "What have I achieved?" but rather, "What have I contributed?"

There is a lot of sixties-bashing going on these days that I don't agree with at all. I feel that extremely important ideals were brought to the forefront of the collective consciousness at that time. Granted, drug use was so pervasive that our generation did not as a group have the capacity to manifest our ideals to any great extent. But many of the people who were young in the sixties and who were most touched by that collective ethos are still touched.